It's no different now than it was then, now we just have the internet. As the great Alfred would say to Batman; "Some people just want to watch the world burn."
All serial killers get fans, its the way of the world. A sick world, but it is what it is. I haven't seen any of these FB pages, but I wonder what kind of justification these supporters could possibly have. I just find the fact that he's got any support to be really disturbing.
It is kind of a "Martyrdom" syndrome...The same reason Manson had and probably still has people writing him, some people, for whatever reason...Just see what they did as "Good." But then we're getting into a grey area of the mind, how things are constituted as "Good" and who makes the determination...This could get really, really long.
A lot of them are just stupid teenagers following a new fad. BOLO for any kids wearing flannels and drinking slurpees with "Holmie 4 lyfe" written on their notebooks. They only have 2 brain cells and being in the same vicinity as them will have devastating effects on your minds.
I might feel sorry for him if Universal buys the movie rights and casts Carrot Top to play him. Wait...no...that's a lie, he'll still be a piece of shit...
It could be worse, it could be a mainstream fad to popularize serial killers, like in Japan.. Issei Sagawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia